That one Tuesday where everything that could go wrong did

Had a 2005 Civic come in for a simple alternator swap last week. Ended up finding the lower bolt was seized, snapped my best breaker bar, then realized the tensioner pulley was welded on from rust. Took me 6 hours and I only charged the guy $150 labor. Anyone else have a job that snowballed into a nightmare over one stuck bolt?

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lee.cole3mo ago

Ripped my whole kitchen sink apart trying to fix one leaky pipe.

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the_jesse2mo ago

@lee.cole yeah that's how it always goes man. One little drip turns into a full demolition job under the sink. You pull out the pipe and suddenly you're elbow deep in old gunk and wondering why you even started. I swear the plumbing in these old houses is held together with hope and rust. Now you gotta hope you can get it all back together without making it worse. Good luck with that mess.

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